crane certifications

More than 200 people recently attended an open house event organized by Pensacola-based Deep South Crane Rentals, Inc. (DSC) to mark the arrival of the company’s new 600 ton Terex® AC 500-2 All Terrain Crane.

Terex Port Solution has delivered its 1,500th Gottwald mobile harbour crane – a Model 6 G HMK 6407 – to SEA-invest’s Antwerp Bulk Terminal (ABT).

A man has died and three were injured when a gantry collapsed at the Arkansas Nuclear One plant in Russellville, Arkansas, this weekend.

Bath Iron Works, ME.-based company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation has been building warships for the U.S. Navy for 128 years. This past December, Bath Iron Works broke its own heaviest lift record using two Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes to pick nearly 1,000 USt – more than double the weight previously lifted by the shipyard.

Sennebogen, which also builds material handlers, port equipment and lifting cranes, is using this month’s Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany, to take the wraps off a new 130 tonne duty cycle crawler crane, the 6130 HD.

The cranes, named the GMK4100S, were built at the request of German rental company Dornseiff, based in Burbach, to meet the demand to perform heavy lifts indoors.

Palfinger is showing off its new PK 200002 L SH knuckle boom crane at Bauma, a model which it says ‘has closed the gap’ with mobile cranes.

The luffing jib of a tower crane collapsed at a site in London yesterday dropping a load onto a footpath.

OSHA has scheduled two informal stakeholder meetings to solicit comments on the crane operator certification requirements in the Cranes and Derricks in Construction standard.

A 500 tonne All Terrain crane overturned in Haifa, Israel on Thursday, at least one person died in the incident.